I watched it around the time that it was current, and had seen quite a bit of it’s contemporary anime by that point. Lots of iconic scenes and moments, until the ending goes completely bananas. The end was / is beyond my comprehension, with way too much symbolism (I assume) for me to follow.
it’s not really symbolic so much as it is just a interpretation of mysticism traditions of various major religions.
it’s kind of a pastiche of christian Gnosticism, Kabbalah, and Buddhist mystic stuff.
but yeah you’d have to know about that stuff for it to make any sense, esp if you’re a teen. I watched it in college so I was a bit more fluent in these things.
While full of symbolism, there’s also a lot of weird Canon science/rules that make it all make sense in the story. Oddly though the actual Canon reasoning is more obscure than the metaphorical meaning/symbolism.
I watched it around the time that it was current, and had seen quite a bit of it’s contemporary anime by that point. Lots of iconic scenes and moments, until the ending goes completely bananas. The end was / is beyond my comprehension, with way too much symbolism (I assume) for me to follow.
it’s not really symbolic so much as it is just a interpretation of mysticism traditions of various major religions.
it’s kind of a pastiche of christian Gnosticism, Kabbalah, and Buddhist mystic stuff.
but yeah you’d have to know about that stuff for it to make any sense, esp if you’re a teen. I watched it in college so I was a bit more fluent in these things.
While full of symbolism, there’s also a lot of weird Canon science/rules that make it all make sense in the story. Oddly though the actual Canon reasoning is more obscure than the metaphorical meaning/symbolism.